They are pretty much bare-bones systems and you still need to come up with a hard-drive and an operating system. Zotac suggest using Windows 7 but you could also use the free OpenELEC Linux-based media centre OS.

Bit Tech was at the launch, but said there was no word on price yet, but the older range was all sub £200 in the UK if you bought the needed hard-drive and RAM to go with it.

While Mini-computers have not had much of a good press, usually because of their speed, sticking something with this sort of spec to an HD telly and connecting it to the net makes a lot of sense, particularly if you plug it into your stereo.